Jan 29, 2014

Everybody loves noodle, including our family. We love almost any kind of noodle such as beehun (rice vermicelli), kwetiau (large rice noodle), yellow noodle,ifumie or bakmi. We love them all. My daughter's favorite is always the kwetiau and indeed its delicious especially the fried kwetiau. But right now, I want to share a recipe using different kind of noodle which is dried stick noodles.

We need to boiled this stick noodles first before cook. Usually, I boild the water first before adding the dried stick noodles. I add salt for savory flavour and cooking oil to the boiling water to prevent the stick noodle from sticking to each other. Wait until the noodles turn soft then put the hot noodles under tap water to stop the cooking process from the heat. Drain. Well, I want to keep the ingredients simple and use garlic and fried shrimps as the main focus.

Who cares if we're trashed got a pocket full of cash we can blow oh oh oh,

Shots of patron,

And it's on, girl.

Don't say no, no, no, no-no;

Just say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah-yeah;

And we'll go, go, go, go-go.

If you're ready, like I'm ready.

Cause it's a beautiful night,

We're looking for something dumb to do.

Hey baby,

I think I wanna marry you.

Is it the look in your eyes,

Or is it this dancing juice?

Who cares baby,

I think I wanna marry you.

I'll go get a ring let the choir bells sing like oooh,

So what you wanna do?

Let's just run girl.

If we wake up and you wanna break up that's cool.

No, I won't blame you;

It was fun, girl.

Don't say no, no, no, no-no;

Just say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah-yeah;

And we'll go, go, go, go-go.

If you're ready, like I'm ready.

Cause it's a beautiful night,

We're looking for something dumb to do.

Hey baby,

I think I wanna marry you.

Is it the look in your eyes,

Or is it this dancing juice?

Who cares baby,

I think I wanna marry you.

Just say I doooooo-ooo uhu,

Tell me right now baby,

Tell me right now baby, baby.

Oh, it's a beautiful night,

We're looking for something dumb to do.

Hey baby,

I think I wanna marry you.

Is it the look in your eyes,

Or is it this dancing juice?

Who cares baby,

I think I wanna marry you.

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First of all, I must confess that I really really love all Bruno Mars' songs. But this particular song has few dumb words which irritates me. I bold all those words on the "Marry Me" lyric above.

I like this song ever since I heard it. The music is fun and the singer's voice is great, until I listen carefully to the lyric. Well, English is obviously my daily language so at first I was doubt and maybe somehow I listen to the wrong words. So I google the actual lyric and found out that I was not that wrong anyway. Turns out that the lyric is not as fun as the music and the singer's voice.

I mean, who among you beautiful ladies out there who want to marry a guy like this? He wants to marry you just because he wants to do something dumb on a beautiful night and of all other dumb things to do he chooses to marry you. He doesn't mention anything about love since I can not find a single word in this entire lyric. And the dumbest of all is the part with underline above. That if somehow, after got married on a stupid night, you wake up and wanna break up, he says: its alright, since last night was fun after all. In other words, you can always get a divorce a few hours after getting married. I can tell you that indeed it is a dumb thing to do.

I consider marriage as sacred thing to do. You need to make sure that you are ready to marry someone and put a commitment into it before putting a ring into your finger. You need to make a plan for your life and think about what you need to do to establish your marriage life. It is not easy. That is why so many people choose to live together with their partners instead of getting married. You face different kind of responsibities when you choose to get married instead of living together. And I am sure that each and every adults know what's the best for their love life whether its married or living together. No one should judges anyone's choice after all.

But considers marriage as a dumb thing to do is totally different. If you really don't feel like want to be with the same person for the rest of your life then why bother getting married at the first place? Every woman wants to marry a responsible and committed man who willing to pour his heart into his new family. Instead of a dumb guy who wants to marry you just because its a beautiful night and he's looking for something dumb to do. Tell him to go away and that he can marry the first tall palm tree he found instead. LoL. Have a nice day ladies :)

Jan 7, 2014

Most of Indonesian recipes are spicy and salty. We use chillis in almost every meals but this one is different. It has sweet taste with a lot of spices on it. The original name in Indonesia is SEMUR but I can not find a suitable word in English so I use the original word instead, smoor. Meat is the common ingredient for this recipe, you can use beef, pork or chicken. But sometimes people also cook smoor with hard boiled eggs or tofu. In this recipe, I use chicken with additional potatoes.

Chicken and Potatoes Smoor

Ingredients:

1 kg chicken, cut into medium size

0,5 kg potatoes, cut and then deep fried.

A ltr of water

2 pcs cardamom

3 cm cinnamon

3 pcs star anise

Sweet soy

Salt and pepper

Blended ingredients:

10 pcs red onions

3 pcs garlics

3 cm ginger

5 pcs candlenut

1 pc nutmeg

How to cook:

Heat cooking oil in a medium size pan, then add the blended ingredients, stir well for about 3 minutes

Add the chicken breast and stir until medium cooked.

Add cardamom, cinnamon and star anise. Cook until you can smell fragrance of the spices.

Add sweet soy. The amount is depends on how sweet you want your smoor to be. The more sweet soy, the sweeter. My kids love sweet smoor so I always add more sweet soy :)

Add the deep fried potatoes then stir well until all chicken breasts and potatoes turn brown with sweet soy. Then add water.

Let it boiled for at least half and hour until all the spices absorbed well.